Hammond is hands down the greatist instrument produced!!! If not for Hammond I wouldn't have wanted to play a musical instrument, but still enjoy playing my B-3 and several of their SK Keyboards! Thanks for posting.
On the other hand, they didn't use the finest quality foam behind the manual wires for organs built after 1965. After all these years, the foam will dissolve those hundreds of tiny resistor wires and kill the organ if no action is taken before. My 1949 C2 still works wonderful today. It needed a capacitor change a few years ago, that's all. The dried wax caps muffle the sound and the electrolytic caps will make the organ hum. They were not designed to last so long.
Hammond wasn't the only manufacturer of electronic equipment who used that awful foam. The difference is that Hammond's gear has usually outlasted all the other stuff.
This is absolutely fantastic, watched it a few years ago but great to revisit it again. The Hammond organ as well as their clocks are such an amazing thing. I have a M3 and a M143 and the quality and build that went into these is stunning.
I have a much more appreciation for Hammond organs after seeing this. My mom worked at a music store called Grinnell Brothers that sold Hammonds and she would demonstrate them to prospective buyers. She told me that a Hammond never needed tuning like other organs! We had a B3 in our church for many years and I always enjoyed hearing it being played as I entered the sanctuary!
Yes, my reaction as well ...until put into context with the typical "church organ" found in a church previously ....which was a PIPE ORGAN....and the mention of "small auditoriums" and "second organs for churches". These organs could be moved very easily by "experienced movers". They were "self-contained" is probably the point. .
Órgão hammond excelente instrumento de se ouvir pelas melhores bandas de vários ritmos músicais dos ANOS 60 E 70 ótimo video PARABÉNS SÃO PAULO BRASIL.
That's the problem ...no company owner would ever allow the amount of detailed processes to be done. Cost is far too high even with the lowest cost labour. Company ownership is only interested in making a profit ....nothing else ....otherwise there is no point. Just imagine the selling price of something that takes several hundred hours to make ...then add the materials costs ....then final product shipping costs ....and then the profit mark-up. The point being, to your comment, everything Hammond did was done "in-house" where everything was fully controlled. No one does this anymore. As much is "out-sourced" to keep capital costs as low as possible. Now the "detail" is lost or completely gone. .
My first job was QC'ing Hammond organs (M's and A's I think) at the Boosey and Hawkes factory in North London. The stringent quality control described here did not apply, I was 19, and it was my first job out of college. If the organ basically worked that was it.
I have a 1963 C-3 that came from Boosey & Hawkes and I am very grateful that the build quality still does it after 60 years of more or less intense use.
The M type spinet organs came out in the late 1940s. The spinet version of the BV and CV. In 1950, the M-2 was introduced, as the spinet version of the B-2 and C-2 0rgans. The M-3 was introduced in 1955, corresponding to the B-3 and C-3.
They were spraying in a special booth with a powerful exhaust blower that would draw the fumes in a direction away from the person spraying and exhaust them out of the building, which is why you don't see any cloud of fumes. That and air dried lacquer is not nearly as toxic as modern chemically hardened paint coatings. Nobody was suffering any harm. They painted cars like this too during the 60s and 70s using downdraft booths. The floor of the booth was open grating and the blower would draw the air straight down. The painters wore no masks, the fumes never got above the painters knees because of the powerful downward draft.
NO Company has ever matched HAMMOND. They can come close but they will never duplicate the VINTAGE HAMMOND. The Hammond XK5 is as close to vintage as you can get.
I remember seeing in an old "Hammond Times" Periodical reference to a Hammond Film for (I think it was) Chapel Organists in the USAF called something like "Wings Over Sound" or something like that. It would be interesting if a copy of that survives someplace? There's a "Finale" section that is missing from this Print. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3GfvaA02i0s.html
Next time the chapel is open (under roof work, again) I'll take a look. My Grandma lived in Colorado Springs as well, so when we were here, I learned on her B-3.
@@dontroutman8232 I can't find an exact date, but probably in the Mid-Late 1970s Allen got awarded the Military Chapel Organ contract away from Hammond.
I'll go with on your knowledge of the subject. They were doing a full restoration last year, on the pipes, and parts, of both the upper and lower organs.
I agree. I have a 1956 B3 and 122 Leslie and the Viscount clone. I only bought the Viscount cause at the time my B3 was down and I needed to record B3 tracks. Even with viscount through my Leslie it had a tiny sound in comparison to the B3. I had to avoid upper register on viscount in order to hide that I wasn’t playing B3. The B3 is back up thanks to an amazing tech who travelled far to help me. Steve Reist is the one to get if you are as fortunate as I was.
